The Croods

The Croods is an unique prehistorical game from the creators of famous Angry Birds series, Rovio. The game based on the upcoming animation of DreamWorks.

Version: 1.0.3

Requires: Android 2.2 and up

Category: Brain & Puzzle

Size: 27 MB

Price: Free

Closer Look to The Croods

The Croods is a brain and puzzle game which includes basic gameplay of classical strategy games . The game consept is totaly prehistorical. You are helping The Croods family which is the first modern family on the earth. They have a new idea about “Hunt & Gather” to break out the stone age. You will help the family by building and developing their settlement. Taming fantastic and uniquely designed creatures will help you to gain resources and construct new buildings.

Creatures, Resources and Missions

Aim of the game is developing your settlement and leveling up by completing various missions. Creatures are the key point of the game. You will use them to gain resources and develop your settlement. You have to build traps to catch animals and tame them in your base. Catching and taming isn’t enough. You must also build homes for these creatures and feed them to gain resources in time.

Your base resource is berries which are growing in the center of your city. You have to manage spend and gain loop of resources. For example, Molarbears will be fed with berries and they will give you carrots. You will use this carrots to feed Bunny Beast which will give you stones. You can use these stones to construct buildings. And so on. These relationships can be listed at a stone board which you can find at the right side of your base camp. These Ugga will also help you to exchange your resources with her soup that you will use to develop your creatures.

You can take missions from other family member, Gran. Missons are vital to gain coins,gems and experience. You will use coins and gems while constructing buildings. Gems are harder to gain and you can use them to speed up things. They make you development progress faster (faster construction) and can also be purchased in-app. You can also level up your buildings to gather the resources faster. As you level up, you will unlock new missions to complete.

Final Words

3D graphics are great and make the game more addictive. Creatures are uniquely designed and sounds are very good.

The game is completely free to play but keep in mind that there are some in-app purchases to speed up your constructions etc. Creators of the game is noted that you can disable in-app purchases if you do not want to use this feature.

The Croods is a unique game that you can easily spend hours while playing. If you like gather and develop typed strategy games, you will probably like The Croods. The game can be seen hard to understand but there is a tutorial at the beginning of the game to help. You will get familiar with things as you play the game. Give it a try to see if the game is suitable for you.